CMS implementation
We've tried many content management systems (CMS) over the years. We have included some fundamental questions to check for any CMS that you're considering below.
Choosing a CMS for your attraction website
We can help give advice on suitable CMS's for your project to meet your needs. Here are some key you should ask:
- Is it scalable to meet your needs now, and in the future?
- Is it intuitive and easy for your team to use?
- Is there enough flexibility, without being overwhelming and slow to update?
- What features are built in, and what would need adding?
- How flexible is the user access - are there different levels and can users be assigned to different areas?
- Are templates built to be mobile-first?
- How long has it been around - what's the development speed and pipeline looking like? Is it well maintained by the community?
- Is it open source?
- What support is available, and how much?
- How much is the licence? Is it a one-off or per year? Is based on the size of site?
- What coding language is it written in?
- Is it extensible?
- Is it secure and regularly updated?
- Does it need any particular infrastructure to run?
Hopefully this will help you as an initial list. Of course, each project is different so we can help work through all of the details with you.
We are Umbraco partners
Our preferred CMS over the past 10 years has been Umbraco. We first used it with Merlin Entertainments, on both single location attractions and complex global brands. We know that the combination of an intuitive CMS, leading cloud infrastructure and attractions modules that we've built help marketers bring their brands to life online efficiently, and at the highest quality.
A lot of features are included, with media management, page layout editing, forms and user access features being particularly strong.
It's also possible to make sites run at a high speed on fairly modest infrastructure, so there are cost and performance benefits to include too.
Read more about our Umbraco Partner status...